I normally don't mind when Vogue Nippon does this with their font, I think it worked nicely with Raquel and Natasha's covers. However, this just looks distracting. I take it that they wanted the focus to be on Iris' body, but it's just all wrong.

The cover image is soooo good, but sorry for the text.
And for anyone who say the content is comparably weak for a September issue, I'd like to point out that Japanese magazines are always two months ahead than the actual, i.e. the September issue is just like the August ones in other countries.
It's really the time they changed their font!